By Shaenon K. Garrity

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This is basically a one-page encapsulation of the entire Director’s Cut commentary. The sad part is that some of these are news to me. I’d completely forgotten my rationales behind the Madblood robots’ numbers. Man, do I ever overthink stuff.

256’s name is obviously supposed to be 0x100, also known as 2-to-the-8th, also known as one larger than the maximum value of a byte. And the ANTONIO SMITH quote is most obviously a reference to the webcomic Homestuck.

Personally, I think it’s tremendously unfair of you to use not one, but two American city street performers as so-called pop-culture references.

Mmmm.. I don’t think that’s right. “Who/Whom” is subject/object — it follows the same rules as he/him, she/her, and so on. But here, I think the quoted person is actually the subject of the (interrogative) sentence.

Nah. Look at the verb – which person is doing the quoting? ANTONIO SMITH, of course, so he’s the subject. And “to quote” doesn’t take a nominative object, so it’d be “whom”. Not the most common order of words for an English sentence, but this specific case is common enough.

Trivia, oh trivia!Where do those guys live, hah?This trivia is making me sick!From whence comes the language that Jungle Mell speaks?In what town was poor Dana learning from freaks?And why in the world does Doc Narbon date geeks?You can strain your brain with trivia!